Midland Olympian Series Transceiver Users Guide

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Basic Operation 
Before turning on your radio for the first time, you should 
ensure power connections have been made correctly and 
all antenna connections are proper and secure. 
Turning the Radio On and Off 
Rotate the power/volume knob clockwise past the detent to turn 
on the radio. Rotate the power/volume knob further clockwise to 
increase the volume. Rotate the power/volume knob 
counterclockwise past the detent to turn off the...

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Receiving Transmissions from Other Radios 
Each channel of your radio may be programmed for carrier 
squelch operation, CTCSS/DCS operation or 2-tone operation. 
The following paragraphs describe these modes of operation. 
Ask your dealer or communications coordinator if you have 
questions on how your radio has been programmed to operate. 
Carrier Squelch Operation 
A signal that matches the programmed receive frequency will be 
heard...

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2-tone Operation 
2-tone signaling allows individual or group calls to be made to 
your radio. The radio may have been programmed to mute all 
receive signals until a 2-tone signal has been decoded. When 
the programmed 2-tone signal is decoded, the Tx/Busy indicator 
will blink green, a beep sequence may sound, and subsequent 
receive audio will be heard over the speaker. The radio may be 
programmed to mute the speaker again after a...

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3. The Tx/Busy indicator will glow red while the radio is 
transmitting. 
4. Hold the microphone approximately 2 inches from your 
mouth and speak across the face of the microphone in a 
clear, normal voice. 
5. Keep the PTT switch pressed until you have finished 
speaking. 
6. Release the PTT switch to return to receive mode. 
 Do not shout! It will only create distortion. 
 Press PTT before you start talking and release PTT after...

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function button again. If beeps are enabled a high pitched beep 
will sound when scan is activated and a lower pitched beep will 
sound when scan is turned off. 
The scan list is initially programmed by your dealer or 
communications coordinator. Your dealer may also have 
designated one or two channels in the scan list as a priority 
channel. The priority channel is checked for activity more often 
than other channels in the scan...

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stopped on a non-priority channel, the radio will continue to 
check for activity on the priority channel. This is called priority 
channel lookback, and the receive audio from the non-priority 
channel will be briefly interrupted while priority lookback occurs. 
While the radio is stopped on a non-priority channel it may be 
deleted from the scan list by pressing a programmed Scan Skip 
or Monitor function button. This is the nuisance...

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dealer programmed channel. This mode may be referred to 
as (priority) talkback transmit. 
Editing Your Scan List 
One of the advanced features of your Olympian™ mobile radio is 
the ability to add channels and banks of channels to your scan 
list. Of course, you may also delete channels and banks of 
channels from your scan list. These changes are saved in radio 
EEPROM and are not temporary like nuisance channel delete. 
The channels...

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channel in the scan list. Press the  and  keys to 
select another channel or press 
B, C or D to 
exit. 
In the example below, channels 2A, 1C and 3C will be scanned. 
Channels 1B and 2B will not be scanned since channel bank B is 
disabled from scanning. 
 
 
 
CH BNK C    e 
CH 1C    e 
CH 2C    D 
CH 3C    e 
CH 4C    D 
CH BNK B    D 
CH 1B    e 
CH 2B    e 
CH 3B    D 
CH BNK A    e 
CH 1A    D 
CH 2A    e  

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Programmable Functions 
For increased flexibility and customization, the 6 front panel 
buttons 
  A B C and D may be 
programmed with the following functions: 
† Bank 
Press and release this button to enter bank select mode. Then 
use the 
 and  keys to select the desired bank then 
press 
A B C or D to exit. 
Press and hold this button for two seconds to enter bank scan 
edit mode. 
† Call Alert 
Press and release this button to...

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† Channel Down 
Press and release this button to decrement the radio to previous 
channel. Press and hold to scroll channels. 
† Emergency 
Press and hold this button to activate the emergency function. 
The programmed emergency response will be performed. After 
the emergency response is performed, the display will continue 
to flash “EMER” until another control is used (if emergency 
display is enabled). 
† Keylock 
Press and hold...